# Airtable User MCP MCP Server

Manage Airtable bases: schema, field CRUD, views, formula validation, extensions

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `airtable-user-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

### Most discussed

### login: any HTTP 200 from getUserProperties is treated as a successful login, closing the browser ~2s after it opens

## Summary

`npx airtable-user-mcp login` reports success and closes the browser about two seconds after opening it, before the user can sign in. The resulting profile is unauthenticated, and every subsequent tool call fails with `Session invalid (0)`.

## Cause

`src/manual-login-runner.js` polls `/v0.3/getUserProperties` and treats **any HTTP 200** as proof of login:

```js
if (res.ok) {
  const data = await res.json();
  return { ok: true, userId: data?.data?.userId };
}
```

Airtable answers

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/21) · 2026-07-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### update_formula_field strips format/precision typeOptions from the field

### Product

npm package (airtable-user-mcp)

### Version

airtable-user-mcp 2.4.11

### MCP Client (if applicable)

Claude Code (CLI)

### OS

Windows 11 (primary repro); Mac (same version installed)

### What happened?

Calling `update_formula_field` to update a formula body on a field that has format/precision `typeOptions` (e.g. `PercentV2` with `precision: 0`) silently strips those typeOptions after the update. The formula is updated correctly, but the field's display format is reset to the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/17) · 2026-05-28 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Draft GitHub Issue — Missing-JSON bug (re-formatted to bug-report.yml form structure)

### Product

npm package (airtable-user-mcp)

### Version

airtable-user-mcp 2.4.10

### MCP Client (if applicable)

Claude Desktop

### OS

windows 11

### What happened?

v2.4.10 fails to boot with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND because the published npm tarball is missing src/daemon/cloudflared-pins.json.

REPRODUCER
1. Fresh machine (no prior install).
2. `npx -y airtable-user-mcp` (or register in any MCP client config and spawn the server).
3. Server crashes immediately at startup.

ROOT CAUSE
packag

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/16) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Draft GitHub Issue — Empty formulaText bug (re-formatted to bug-report.yml form structure)

### Product

npm package (airtable-user-mcp)

### Version

airtable-user-mcp 2.4.10

### MCP Client (if applicable)

Claude Desktop

### OS

Windows 11

### What happened?

download_formula_field and download_base_formulas return empty formulaText for every formula in v2.4.10, even though the formulas exist and are functional in the live Airtable UI. Field metadata (name, IDs, description, resultType) does come back correctly. Sister tool validate_formula works fine.

REPRODUCER
1. Install and a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/15) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Draft GitHub Issue — Lookup typeOptions documentation drift in create_field (re-formatted to bug-report.yml form structure)

### Product

npm package (airtable-user-mcp)

### Version

airtable-user-mcp 2.4.10

### MCP Client (if applicable)

Claude Desktop

### OS

macOS Sequoia (Mac Studio, Node v22.14.0)

### What happened?

create_field with fieldType "lookup" returns 422 "options are not valid" when called with the typeOptions shape the tool's own description documents. The actual live API accepts a different vocabulary — the same vocabulary update_field_config uses for lookup fields.

DOCUMENTED SHAPE (from creat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/14) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Draft GitHub Issue — multilineText create_field returns 422 with or without typeOptions (re-formatted to bug-report.yml form structure)

### Product

npm package (airtable-user-mcp)

### Version

airtable-user-mcp 2.4.10

### MCP Client (if applicable)

Claude Desktop

### OS

macOS Sequoia (Mac Studio, Node v22.14.0)

### What happened?

create_field with fieldType "multilineText" returns 422 "options are not valid" both with no typeOptions passed AND with typeOptions: {} explicitly. The same field type is creatable cleanly via the official Airtable MCP using the same auth, so the live API accepts multilineText fields fine — the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Automations-Project/VSCode-Airtable-Formula/issues/11) · 2026-05-26 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 9 reports Pod holds for Airtable User MCP](/mcp/airtable-user-mcp/issues).

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